New Releases From Zarek 

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2CD ZAREK 21/22: DOUGLAS R. EWART/IGNAZ SCHICK– NOW IS FOREVER
Douglas R. Ewart:
sopranino & alto saxophone, english horn, shakuhachi, bamboo flutes, didjeridoo, bells, voice/narration
Ignaz Schick:
turntables, sampler, looper/pitch shifter, live-sampling, Indonesian oscillator box

https://zarekberlin.bandcamp.com/album/now-is-forever

I managed to fly to Minneapolis, rent a rehearsal studio and record for two days with this exceptional visionary, multi-instrumentalist, maker-inventor, poet, afro-logical conscience keeper and critical thinker. I still remember how I arrived with a very bad flu that I had caught on a festival in Austin/Texas right before the trip up North, but what to do, this was an one off chance not to be missed. So I tried my best to ignore the symptoms and just set-up the borrowed turntables, my sampler & Zoom H6n recorder, installed two overheard microphones for Douglas’ multi-instrument collection and after a short test recording we started the musical dialogue right away. The tracks of “Now is Forever“ were recorded exactly in the order they are presented, there are no changes, overdubs or edits.

CD ZAREK 23: ERNST BIER/GUNNAR GEISSE/IGNAZ SCHICK– HAWKING EXTENDED
Ignaz Schick [alto saxophone, turntables, sampler]
Gunnar Geisse [laptop guitar, virtual instruments]
Ernst Bier [drums, wave drum, electronics]

https://zarekberlin.bandcamp.com/album/hawking-extended

With Hawking Extended the two Berlin based musicians Ernst Bier & Ignaz Schick present their duo Hawking (formed in 2013) in addition with the Munich based composer, guitarist and live-electronics player Gunnar Geisse. While Hawking performed entirely with live-electronic instruments – in Hawking Extended however additionally to the three different electronic set-ups the musicians also make use of their original acoustic instruments. The purely acoustic setting (saxophone, guitar, drums) is mirrored with the entire electronic display (Wave Drum/Electronics, Laptop, Turntable). The music consciously uses the tension between acoustic free improvisation, electro-acoustic/electronic music, noise and contemporary jazz and continuously oscillates between those different stylistic poles.

CD ZAREK 24CD: IGNAZ SCHICK/OLIVER/STEIDLE– ILOG3
Ignaz Schick (turntables, sampler, pitch shifter/looper)
Oliver Steidle (drums, percussion, sampler, live-electronics)

https://zarekberlin.bandcamp.com/album/ilog3

ILOG3 was recorded only a little more than a year after the epic ILOG2 session…The music is a succession of densely improvised electro-acoustic mayhem, highly abstracted and chopped up beats and surreal textures.